A key entry point towards this line of enquiry was a study calling out scientific results presented in a paper on superconductivity, in
which the similarity of patterns of signal noise depicted in graphs was cited as an aberration worthy of casting doubt over the original research.

This lecture-demonstration-listening workshop is a public engagement that I have been developing. It aims to create awareness around how we listen to our ambient environments, with particular focus on concepts of patterns and repetition in sound.

A key aspect of the workshop are blind listening exercises in which
prepared audio material is replayed for audiences to listen to with the explicit objective of identifying patterns. A psycho-somatic experience is sometimes created in which loops may be identified in audio where there are none, or the converse.

The inferrence derived from this episode was that true noise (or “static”) does not bear repetitive patterns. In producing repetitive patterns with (white) noise, listeners are faced with a question as to whether a recording of noise can be considered noise.